Watch the November Nine in action as the final table bubble approaches on Day 7!
@William Pappaconstantinou and @William Tonking :
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November Nine Foster Moments: "Never Is Easy!"
2014 November Niner Will Tonking Bio and Poker Profile
2014 November Niner Billy Pappas Bio and Poker Profile
2014 November Niner Jorryt van Hoof Bio and Poker Profile
Norway's First November Niner Felix Stephensen Bio & Poker Profile
November Nine Foster Moments: 'Never Is Easy!'
#vamosfostera is one of the hottest hashtags on Twitter and Brazil is burning with poker fever ever since @Bruno Politano made the November Nine! However, even with stars such as Kaka and Neymar among his supporters, there's one thing Bruno 'Foster' Politano has learned in his 13 years of playing poker: "Never is easy!.."
WSOP 2014 Main Event, Day 7:
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2014 November Niner Bruno Politano Bio and Poker Profile
2014 November Nine Moments - Bruno Politano Doubles Through Phil Ivey
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Davidi Kitai Competing for the $6 Million Prize Pool in ACOP Super High Roller, Macau
With 52 entrants and 50 rebuys, the Asia Championship of Poker 2014 Super High Roller prize pool swelled to over $6 million. After a double knock out last night and the exit of @Dan Smith and @Dimitar Danchev, the spectacular field of the world's elite high rollers is down to the 8 paid places. Triple Crown winner @Davidi Kitai is still in contention!
Play has resumed and the Winamax pro, who made one rebuy, is guaranteed $315,000 for 8th place and as much as $1.8 million for first!
Kitai's 3,190,000 in chips at the start of the final day are now down to 1.1 million (blinds 80,000/160,000) after he lost a pot to @Ryan Fee:
| 4:00pm: Fee wins even more Ryan Fee has started very strongly. He recently won plenty of chips off Joseph Cheong and then went on to win a hefty pot off Davidi Kitai. This one started with Kitai opening to 300,000 from the hijack. Fee called from the big blind and the dealer spread out a 6♠K♥Q♥ flop. Fee check-called a bet of 350,000 here and a 5♣hit the turn. This time both players checked and a 4♠ was dealt on the river. After a few moments, Fee changed the tempo, leading out for 800,000. This bet put Kitai deep into the tank. He squiremed in his chair for a long time, clearly not looking too comfortable. Fee sat stoically before Kitai eventually made the call. Fee tabled K♣8♠, Kitai mucked his hand and another nice pot went to Fee. |
The current chip leader is @Joseph Cheong and unsurprisingly, a certain @Daniel Colman is also still in the game!
Yesterday Davidi Kitai chipped up in a crucial three-way all-in. Holding A♥ 9♥, Kitai won the huge pot against @Mike McDonald (pocket 4's) and @Tobias Reinkemeier (pocket T's):
| 10:40pm: Massive three-way all in Mike McDonald was in the cut off when he shoved all in for what looked like 1,250,000. Davidi Kitai then shoved from the small blind for 1,685,000. It was already a big pot, but it was about to get bigger as Tobias Reinkemeier went deep into the tank. Reinkemeier: T♥T♦ It was looking like we might have a double elimination. At least, that was the case before the dealer flipped over a Q♣9♥9♦ flop to put Kitai In front. Then an A♣ gave Kitai the full house. The 4♠ river was just a little needle to McDonald who had made a smaller full house. |
Live updates: http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/tournaments/appt/2014/2014-acop-super-high-roller-final-table-1-152005.shtml
RKH: Davidi 'Le Génie' Kitai: Je ne me considère pas comme étant 'un génie' (Interview exclusive par @Nicolas Levi )
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Annie RKH 3 Nov 2014
5:00pm: Davidi Kitai eliminated in 8th place (HK$2,420,400)
Davidi Kitai has just become the first player eliminated at the final table.
He moved all in preflop for 680,000 from middle position and Daniel Colman called from the button.
It was Colman with Q♣J♦ against Kitai with K♥8♦.
To give a bit of background before we tell you the flop, the players were recently ribbing Colman about how good he runs and has run this year.
That's why they burst into laughter when the dealer rolled out a 9♣K♠T♣ flop to give him the nut straight.
No help for Kitai on the 6♠ turn or the 9♥ river and so he was sent to the rail with HK$2,420,000 (~US$1.8 million).
Colman is now up well above 5 million.
Nicolas Levi 3 Nov 2014
GG @Davidi Kitai thanks Annie for the news!
Adrien Bacchi 4 Nov 2014
Thanks Annie for the news... I learned it from you ;)
Weekly RankingHero Highlights
There have been two new entries in the RankingHero interview collection this week - Mickey Petersen and Leo Margets talked to @Pedro Canali about the poker lifestyle, ambassadorship for the game, the best live poker venues and destinations, and much more. We take this opportunity to officially welcome @Leonor Margets-Perez to the RankingHero community! May you run good at both poker tables and race tracks :)
Mickey Petersen Interview
Leo Margets Interview
The WSOP Main Event final table is all set for Monday, November 10! We've added more November Nine Moments featuring Billy Pappas, Will Tonking and Jorryt van Hoof, as well as the Van Hoof Bio and Poker Profile.
As usual, we have been following our members playing and cashing in events big and small all over the world. Congratulations to @Angelina Rich, who cashed in ACOP Event 2, @City of Dreams Casino, @Christophe Bourdila who is a regular at @Casino Partouche de Forges les Eaux, @Scott Demoulin (US) who recently topped a field of 108 entrants at @ARIA Resort & Casino and @Mick Stephens who ranks fifth on the @Star Casino leaderboard with 27 ITM, just ahead of another RankingHero member - @Tadas Galkus :)
Warm welcome to new members @Marco Caza @Dale Winterstein @Lance Jones @Olivier Brugeaud @Serdar Ozyurek and we hope to soon see your names in the featured winners section!
Special thanks to all the RankingHeroes posting and sharing links, stories, poker tournament updates, and photos: @ShiShiFed and @Lucky Carmello (find the post about her first Royal Flush against Lucky here); @Jacques Ammel @pokassa @Izabelle Liti @Christian Grenier from the @Poker Club Brignais (PCB), and the many, many others!
Thank you @Gilles Duguy, winner of the Campok Grand Championnat, for the detailed account of your @Barriere Poker Tour Day 1 at @Casino Barrière d'Enghien-les-Bains. It may have ended too soon but we're proud of your game and hope the poker gods will smile on you next time!
One more happy RankingHero winner - @Michel Pons - is preparing for his @Malta Poker Championship adventure where his path may cross with another hero of our community: @Jason Matthieu :) Our thoughts will be with you both and we will look forward to your updates and pics!
Have a great poker week everyone, and keep us busy with new results!
Yours truly,
November Nine Moments: Kings for Tonking!
The New Jersey November Niner @William Tonking was short-stacked for most of the 7 days playing down to the final nine. Yet, time and again he'd win a pot at the right moment, taking him over to the next level: "For whatever reason, the deck wanted to keep me in that tournament."
Tonking got a break on Day 6 in two consecutive hands with auspicious Kings.
Kings for Tonking, Round 1:
In the very next hand, Tonking found himself holding pocket Kings and @Brian Roberts called the pre-flop all-in with Jacks.
Kings for Tonking, Round 2
November Nine Moments: Jorryt van Hoof Sets Trap with Flopped Set
The Dutch #NovemberNiner and newly appointed ambassador for @Master Classics of Poker will start the WSOP 2014 Main Event final table as the chip leader and 3-to-1 favorite to win.
Watch @Jorryt Van Hoof in this Day 6 #PokerHand as he checks with his flopped set and ends up eliminating @Scott Mahin in 18th place:
Adrien Bacchi 31 Oct 2014
3 to 1 favorite to win, yeah !
Annie RKH 1 Nov 2014
And here it's Van Hoof who's holding the pocket 10's :
2014 November Niner Jorryt van Hoof Bio and Poker Profile
The man who is the current sports betting 3-to-1 favorite to win the WSOP 2014 Main Event is not a live tournament player but a PLO online cash-game specialist. @Jorryt Van Hoof describes himself as ‘poker pro, entrepreneur, and quantified-self enthusiast’. In addition to the Dutch poker community, his rail is likely to include Magic:The Gathering aficionados since this game was his first passion in his teens! His brand-new visiting card now also includes the title of Ambassador for the Dutch @Master Classics of Poker.
“Two years ago I started playing Pot Limit Omaha. The process of learning a new game really sparked a new motivation in me and I think this has helped me improve my overall game and make this year’s WSOP final table.” (nutblocker.com)
Jorryt was born on November 15, 1982. His hometown Eindhoven was named ‘most intelligent community’ in 2011 and is the biggest city in the Netherlands province of North Brabant.
He started playing Magic:The Gathering in his early teens and by the age of 16 was in business as co-owner of a MtG cards and boardgame shop. It started as an online business and later expanded with a physical store which had a room where customers could play cards and boardgames.
Throughout his poker pro years, Jorryt never lost his entrepreneurial spirit. Even now he owns two small businesses - a poker site (where he also posts PLO coaching videos), Nederpoker.com, and another one called Trainers.nu, intended for people looking for a personal trainer. Van Hoof has also developed a new passion - Quantified Self, which basically consists in gaining self-knowledge and improving one’s performance and well-being through the use of self-tracking tools.
Jorryt's way up to the most prestigious final table in poker started back in 2003. Some of the regular MtG customers in his shop invited him to join a game of poker. Jorryt got lucky and was hooked for good. He started playing 50 euro tournaments in a local casino and soon decided to take up poker full-time.
He made a name for himself online as the player who ‘cleaned out’ Justin Bonomo, which is how his famous screenname TheCleaner11 was born. In the past two years, Jorryt van Hoof has mainly been playing PLO cash games online. His poker career and business projects took him to Dublin for about a year and then to Malta where he lived until his recent move back to the Netherlands.
His first recorded tournament cash is from the @Aviation Club de France and the 2005 Paris Open of Poker - a 4th place in a NLHE tournament that paid $5,962.
His biggest cash before 2014 dates back to the 2006 Master Classic of Poker when he finished 7th for $67,790 after being the chip leader for 3 days.
Jorryt van Hoof has scored three ITM finishes in 2007 and 2008 WSOP events, most notably, a deep run in a $1,500 NLHE event where he finished 67th out of 3151 entrants.
As he shared in this interview, it was in 2007 that he first tried PLO, which was later to become his specialty. In fact, he has played little else in the past two years. His decision to go to Vegas for the WSOP in 2014 was a last-minute one and he only arrived the day before the Main Event. Jorryt even missed the first level on Day 1:
I actually missed the first level of Day 1 because I thought I had a day off. After doing my morning routine: yoga, meditation and a healthy breakfast, I was about to head to the swimming pool for a relaxing day but then I read in a poker magazine that I was supposed to be playing.
A few years ago this mistake would have tilted me, but I was able to stay calm and relaxed about it. In fact, I was pretty happy about it because I was able to play in a relaxed mode thanks to my morning routine. (nutblocker.com)
The 'relaxed mode' seemed to work well all the way to Day 7 as Jorryt van Hoof finished as the chip leader. When sports betting companies released the odds to win, he unsurprisingly proved to be a 3-to-1 favorite.
As several other November Niners, Van Hoof made an appearance at the first EPT 11 stop in Barcelona and in October 2014, made it to Number 19 in the EPT 11 London leaderboard. The Dutch November Niner attained two final tablesin London: in Event 43 where he finished 3rd for $43,217 and the 10K High Roller, where he got to 8th place and $79,364.
It was recently announced that Van Hoof has signed on as an ambassador of the @Master Classics of Poker - the most reputed Dutch poker tournament. The dates have now been pushed back to November 21-29 to accommodate the WSOP final table and the event will take place at the @Holland Casino Amsterdam.
Jorryt van Hoof will be celebrating his 32nd birthday on November 15. It is sure to be the party of a lifetime if he wins the Main Event, November 10-11 :)
Sources and links:
http://www.rankinghero.com/jorryt.van.hoof
Nutblocker.com: An Interview with Jorryt van Hoof: How PLO Helped my WSOP Dreams (Part 1)
Gambling911: WSOP Finalist Jorryt Van Hoof Is Phil Hellmuth’s Type Of Guy
PokerNews: 2014 WSOP November Nine: Chip Leader Jorryt van Hoof Looks To Clean Up
PokerListings: Jorryt van Hoof: 2014 WSOP Main Event November Nine Bio
Short of Halloween Ideas? Get Inspired by Poker Stars!
Live poker players are, by default, experts of disguise, so get some inspiration from the pros: @Jennifer Tilly, @Joanne Jishung "JJ" Liu, the Raising for Effective Giving team of ambassadors -@Liv Boeree @Igor Kurganov and @Philipp Gruissem, @Bertrand Grospellier, and of course - the King of Masquerade, @Phil Hellmuth :)
Jennifer Tilly can be the source of all sorts of inspiration and if you haven't already, discover her beautiful writing and Bluff Magazine column!
The Poker Brat is not one to pass up on an occasion to dress up and is famous for his spectacular entrances, most notably to the WSOP 2008-2010, as well as the 2013 WPT Venice:
With all their serious concerns, projects, and charity work, these three know how to have fun, too :) Find out more about REG here!
The star of French poker had great fun (if not a very good run) at the 2008 APPT in Macau, when he appeared as the Joker :)
In 2009, Daniel Negreanu showed up for his match with @Thuan B. "Scotty" Nguyen in the NBC National Heads-Up Championship dressed up as.. Scotty Nguyen :)
2012 Women in Poker Hall of Fame inductee JJ Liu has said she improved her poker skills by studying Sun Tsu's 'The Art of War' but she is just as well-versed in the 'art of fashion'! You may choose to draw Halloween inspiration from her elaborate outfits and fun hats :)
RKH: Jennifer Tilly Bio and Poker Profile
RKH: Philipp Gruissem: 'Giving makes you happy and everybody should try it'
PokerNews: Poker Players' Halloween Costume Ideas feat. Liv Boeree and Phil Hellmuth
PokerUpdate: It's Always Halloween at the Poker Tables
PokerStars Blog: 2014 ACOP: Ten Questions for ElkY
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tablerase.fr 30 Oct 2014
C'est pas juste quand même ! pour cette fête, certaines n'ont pas besoin de se déguiser en sorcière rouquine, regardez mama-bijoux ou coryn Bauché par exemple... hihihi 
je suis diabolikement méchant
November Nine Moments: Three Finalists in Contention for a Pot on Day 6
On Day 6 of the WSOP 2014 Main Event, with about 40 remaining, as many as four players who would eventually make the November Nine found themselves at the same table: @William Tonking @Felix Vincent Stephensen @Andoni Larrabe Sanchez and @William Pappaconstantinou, aka Billy Pappas.
Here is a foretaste of what is to come on November 10! Watch Billy Pappas steal a pot from Larrabe after the Norwegian #NovemberNiner Felix Stephenson prudently withdraws from the contention:
Watch and share more great poker moments on RankingHero with the #PokerHand tag!
2014 November Niner Andoni Larrabe Bio and Poker Profile
Norway's First November Niner Felix Stephensen Bio & Poker Profile
2014 November Niner Billy Pappas Bio and Poker Profile
